Via Stereogum, Converse sneakers is celebrating its centennial by playing matchmaker between three artists that, at first blush, don’t look like they’d have much in common. But as summer fizz goes, the results of Pharrell Williams, Santi White and Julian Casablancas’ meeting of the minds and mouths, “My Drive Thru,” is a nice example of what can come from bizarre couplings, or triplings, even if it is all for the sake of selling shoes.
So, let’s play a comments section game. Put three people together, and try to articulate what the resulting mess would sound like.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Does it have to be in the realm of possibility or does time and death matter? If not, I’d pair up Freddy Mercury, Danger Mouse, and Nels Cline to see what they’d come up with.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
We can play both ways — pretend that we have one of those chambers like The Orchid from “Lost,” and do some time traveling, or we can keep it in the realm of true possibility.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Psht. In that case, let’s take the tributes. Beck, The Who and the Stones.
Think of a production of Hair with Animal from the Muppets hammering a techno-beat.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Gene Simmons, Frank Zappa, and Amy Grant.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I don’t know what that would sound like, I just want to hear what they have to say to each other.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Sigur Ros and Louis Armstrong. and the Taco Bell Dog.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Check it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y8aGlOj2VFo&feature=related